Specialty Overview: Registered nurses coordinate and provide care through assessing and evaluating patients’ conditions, administering treatment and medication, and recording symptoms and ...

Unfortunately, nursing home abuse occurs more frequently ... The staff member fails to administer the doses of medication at all, so the resident doesn’t receive the benefit of the drug.

An updated AAP policy statement has new guidance for the safe administration of medication in schools. The guidance, meant for school physicians, community prescribers, school nurses and other ...

The systems, in which nurses use an electronic scanner to sync packaged drugs with patient and electronic medication administration records, are designed to put more safeguards around medication ...

increasing the risk of administering the wrong medication, Dr Brown said. Engaging the nursing staff in the BCMA technology implementation process has proven instrumental in tackling these ...

The medication was not available at the facility's pharmacy, but staff did not notify the provider so that new orders could be given, according to the inspection. A nursing director told the ...